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Six UConn faculty members have received a Fulbright Scholar award for the \u201909 -\u201910 academic year, placing the University in the top 10 among U.S. research institutions in terms of the number of faculty selected.<\/p>\nSix UConn faculty members have received a Fulbright Scholar award for the \u201909 -\u201910 academic year, placing the University in the top 10 among U.S. research institutions in terms of the number of faculty selected.<\/p>\n
UConn joins New York University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and Penn State, each of which had six faculty members chosen. Only Michigan State, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oregon had more (seven each).<\/p>\n
An international exchange program established in 1946 under the aegis of the State Department to enhance America\u2019s role in the world, Fulbright will send about 2,800 U.S. students and scholars abroad this year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/em> Fulbright recipients spend one year overseas.<\/p>\n \u201cRanking among the top producers of faculty Fulbrights underscores that UConn faculty are engaged internationally, in addition to being outstanding scholars,\u201d says Elizabeth Mahan, interim executive director of the Office of International Affairs. \u201cThis bodes well for realizing the internationalization goals laid out in our academic plan, since all the research on internationalization in higher education points to faculty engagement as the key to success.\u201d<\/p>\n One UConn recipient of the award is Alexis Dudden, associate professor of history, who is spending her Fulbright year in Japan working on a new book. In it, she considers how Japan’s Cold War experience is influencing the ways Japanese society is establishing the country’s place in the region and the world in the 21st century.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m reading through various archives, doing ethnographic studies, and considering what daily life today means as a result of the Cold War experience along the Japan sea coast facing Korea, Russia, and Northeast China,\u201d says Dudden.<\/p>\n Larry Goodheart, a professor of history at the Greater Hartford campus, is a senior Fulbright lecturer at Hacettepe University<\/a> in Ankara, Turkey. He is teaching courses in the Department of American Culture and Literature on African Americans, human rights, and capital punishment. In addition, he has lectured at Ataturk University in Erzurum and at Uludag University in Bursa.<\/p>\n “I find the exchange of ideas with students and colleagues very stimulating,” says Goodheart.<\/p>\n Hedley Freake, a professor of nutritional sciences, is working in Hong Kong for the year. The education system there is being extensively revised, with students being required to spend a year less in high school and four rather than three years in college. As a consequence, the universities are developing new general education programs. Freake is part of a team of Fulbright Scholars advising on this project. He is based at Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/a>, but members of the Fulbright team work extensively together, providing workshops and consultation services to all universities in Hong Kong and also more broadly though the region.<\/p>\n “Hong Kong universities are being required to reinvent themselves,\u201d says Freake. \u201cIt is a fascinating challenge to help them think through that process, while at the same time trying to understand the local and institutional cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n